A CHRONOLOGICAL VIEW OF WESTERN MUSIC HISTORY IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD EVENTS

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

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February 24, 1704: Marc-Antoine Charpentier dies in Paris, Kingdom of France, at the age of 61.
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November 28, 1892: Le malade imaginaire, a comédie-ballet by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (†188) restored by Camille Saint-Saëns (57) to words of Molière, is performed for the first time, in Paris. For this production Saint-Saëns composed a new Sarabande et Rigaudon op.93.